I found it. I found the thing that's going to make me whole again after a week of running around with my foot on the gas. I have developed a Sunday afternoon ritual, and I call it: the bath.
Now, I'm a shower-type-person by nature. But I think that's largely, and perhaps unfairly, due to the time factor. About a month ago, I dug out the aromatherapy apothecary kit that I got for Christmas '07 and put it to good use. Sea salt mixed with eucalyptus essential oil, peppermint leaves, a mandarin masque and blood orange sugar rub, milk soap, lemon-sage lotion and a mug of chamomile tea later, I was convinced that I would never be angry with anyone again. I felt incapable of anger.
So this is my new love. And it's a great, great love. A true and perfect love. I haven't missed a Sunday since then, and if you're not treating yourself to a sinfully long soak every once in a while, I say shame on you. Heed your shampoo bottle and wash, rinse, repeat.
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Oh, jealousy. My place right now doesn't have a tub, but I used to the bath wit the best of them. Tea? Blood orange sugar rub?? Total jealousy.
this is why I LOVE to make soaps/lotions/bath salts, etc. I don't like baths, but I love smelling good!!!
beck: now all i need is a rockin' tea mug like one of yours ;)
and angie! hi! welcome, welcome. do you make that stuff from scratch?? i have been wanting to do that for a while! anyway, that's good to know - just in case i'm your secret santa next year :-)
Sigh! I have to shamefully admit that I must be a hyper type A pathetic person because as soon as I sit myself in a bathtub, I start getting anxious and fidget and can't handle just sitting in there! Good grief, can you imagine someone like me meditating...I would be peeking at the clock every second.
lol. i have to "turn my brain off" as well, raina. and yoga is about as close as i get to meditating!
Oh, I've been blogging for a long time. Don't read them, though. They're very depressing.
I can teach you how to make stuff if you want.
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